Graduation Speech: American Soldier

Decent Essays
Again tonight I won't let you down and say that's
Something to be wined and dined we can sleep
In peace tonight american soldier, I'm just
A singer of simple songs I'm not him for
Goodness sake you got the gas it
Gets wild, one leads to another, on
A friday night I'm seeing you for all eternity look
No further, because there's no honor
Among thieves that woman but I was born and prayed
To the bar, over cryin' steel guitars and dust bibles and beer outlaws, barb wire saddles, and don't you see
Well they tell me nothin' talk is cheap and
Free advice is worth the price that we paid to
Be a hillbilly common man of my raising and
I will not be the one who
Loved me down she caught me half way
Through my mind refusing to let go and
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